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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1904
Page
2
A jumble of brief notes and quotes touches on King Peter, Boer leader Viljoen, Lipton, scarlet fever, Radium, a Boston judge advising women, Peary, Dreyfus, college theft, ice companies, and royal nuptials. The mix hints at sensational asides and scattered foreign affairs with no single cohesive story.
A long feature highlights labor movements, wage actions, and union developments. Reports cover Mine Workers, carpenters, bottle blowers, printers, and hod carriers, noting wage gains, hours reductions, and strikes. Also noted are employer associations, lockouts in Batavia, and cooperative movements in England driving wage gains through mutual aid and collective action.
Reports show 133000 women employed in Massachusetts mills and wage gains for Boston back drivers. US Supreme Court upholds eight hour law in Kansas, while Connellsville PA sees a new Sligo plant in operation. Unions report large membership changes, wage cuts, and strikes shaping labor politics nationwide.
William Collier in a humorous toast to Mephisto during a church gathering contrasts verse from Shakespeare with reverent mockery. The crowd jokes about the devil’s pleas and staged plays including Othello and Hamlet as they toast the fictional Mephisto at a revival.
James P Van Etten County Commissioner Nilis and Theodore R Baker, Pike County residents, were riding Van Etten’s automobile when a bull blocked the road at Dingmans. The animal charged, jolting the car against a barbed wire fence, but the party escaped serious injury. The episode ended with the bull wandering off.
Abijah Thompson of Woburn Massachusetts shows an old Spanish silver coin about the size of a cent dated 1803. The front bears Carlos Del Gratea 1803 and the reverse Hisp. Ind. Rex. M. BE. 2 RE. 11. He also owns an old Turkish coin given years ago by his brother Leander Thompson, long a missionary there.
The text notes Verkhoyansk in northeastern Siberia as the coldest inhabited place with January lows reaching 90 degrees below zero and occasional rises to 86 degrees above zero in July, while summer nights can reach freezing. It also highlights tea consumption by Australians at seven and three-quarters pounds per person annually, England at about three and a half pounds, and the United States at one pound two ounces.
Mrs Inaie Doucet, the first French Canadian to settle in Woonsocket Rhode Island, died after moving from Canada 66 years ago by carriage. A Worcester Massachusetts man was arrested recently claiming he had been taken into custody 100 times.
A Philadelphia Record fragment asserts diplomacy shapes family sharing and hosting. It cites a Jura hotel notice asking strange gentlemen not to dress for dinner and jokes about mustaches and costs, reflecting humorous travel era manners and social norms.
A faded advertisement offers a $100 reward and claims a miracle cure for a disease. It states the remedy opens the blood and destroys the disease’s root, promising relief and restoration. Proprietors F. J. Cheney and Co. of Toledo, Ohio, urge belief in their curative powers and invite medical scrutiny.
The English statute mile was first defined in the thirty ninth year of Queen Elizabeth. Earlier it stood at 5,000 feet, then later standardizing to the mile.
Fragmentary note suggests trout, a freshwater fish, are sometimes found with herrings in the German Ocean. The garbled text mentions stock, brands, and pricing, but details are unclear.
On his eightieth birthday historian Theodore Mommsen received a visit from a large student delegation. They marched to his home, but he declined to leave his work, saying they see him daily at the university and questioning the need to disturb him now.
The article clarifies that the so called stand of Gibraltar is not an island but a peninsula linked to Spain by a sandy isthmus. It describes Gibraltar as a limestone rock about three miles long and up to three quarters of a mile wide, with its highest point reaching 1,396 feet above the sea.
A plague of ants invaded an Everley England office. Paper soaked with peppermint was spread about. The ants disappeared in half an hour. Though the peppermint odor faded in days, the memory of the invasion did not recur.
A quotation emphasizes that mental vigor comes from self-wrought effort and constant stretching of the mind over large problems. Independent thought is credited with increasing mental power more than passive study or external coaching.
Prof. Schuman of Cornell suggests allocating eleven hours to study two hours to meals three to athletics one to recreation and eight to ulosp creating a twenty five hour day a provocative schedule proposal reported in the period.
A physician recounts years of coffee use with daily heart palpitations until a severe attack prompted switching to Postum. He notes improved health after proper brewing and even advises friends and patients to avoid coffee. The ad cites Postum Co. of Battle Creek Michigan and mentions the book The Road to Wellville.
Mrs P Bransel of Everett Washington testifies that four years of back pain and fatigue vanished after using Dusu Xidney Pills. She took five boxes and reports dramatic relief. Foster Milburn Co markets the pills at 50 cents a box. The text mentions sanitarium guests and unrelated details about parrots and woodlands.
A French made virus called dañay is claimed harmless to domestic animals yet fatal to rats. Bread infected with it was dispersed at docks railway stations and schools causing over a thousand rat deaths in one night. Final experimental results are awaited.
A large bronze eagle with one broken drooping wing will be the central feature of France’s national monument planned for the Waterloo field. The sculpture symbolizes resilience and national memory as part of the commemorative site.
Good News From Minnesota reports William E Gentry of Lakefield Jackson County has recovered after 46 years of kidney and urinary issues. At 77 he says Dodd's Kidney Pills cured his back pain and overall health, claiming he feels better than in decades.
Wabash train No 9 set a record by completing St Louis to Kansas City in five hours and fifty minutes Sunday afternoon. Despite starting an hour late, the train beat the seven hour ten minute schedule and prior records by five minutes. Conductor J. S. Gould and engineer Charles Summerville led the run aboard a full mail, combination, chair, and diner equipment with speeds up to seventy mph in places and one mile per minute between Mexico and Montgomery City. The trip distance is twenty four miles and took twenty four minutes. A humorous astronomy note followed from the Denver Post about Jupiter’s imagined floors and basement.
The Indianapolis News notes a wary stance on furnace actions amid much smoke, warning that high temperatures at home may not align with furnace behavior and prompting serious doubt about the situation.
A historical table lists muzzle velocities of rifles from major nations. United States Springfield at 2000 feet per second, France Lobel 2078, Ruger Metford 2000, Spain Mauser 2088, Italy Mannlicher Carcano 2100, Germany Mauser 2034, with subsequent graduations showing US 2000, UK 2100, Spain 2100, and Germany 2187 yards per hour in older measurement practice.
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